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Graduate Student
Dept. Plant Breeding and Genetics
Cornell University
Institute of Genomic Diversity
175 Biotechnology Building
Ithaca, NY 14853-2703
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Tel: (607) 255-1809
Fax: (607) 255-6249
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I am a first-year graduate student in the Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, but my background is in southwestern archaeology and paleoethnobotany. I am interested in the genetic consequences of culturally-mediated domestication and subsequent selection of crop plants, especially maize.
Education
2011- Present Graduate Student, Plant Breeding and Genetics
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Advisor: Edward Buckler
2006-2008 M.A. Anthropology, with Distinction
Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ
Thesis Title: High Elevation Wood and Social Meaning: A Paleoethnobotanical Investigation at Honey Bee Village, a Hohokam Ballcourt Settlement in the Northern Tucson Basin. (Dr. George Gumerman IV, Chair)
2001-2005 B.S. Biology and Anthropology, with Honors
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Thesis Title: Resource Availability and Consumer Choice by Late Archaic Foragers in the Taos District, NM: Implications for Mobility and Agricultural Potential. (Dr. Richard Ford, Chair)
Publications
2011 Swarts, Kelly. Structural Wood Choice and Cultural Meaning at Honey Bee Village. In, Life in the Valley of Gold, Archaeological Investigations at Honey Bee Village, A Prehistoric Hohokam Ballcourt Village in the Cañada del Oro Valley of Southern Arizona: Introduction, Chronology, Material Culture Investigations, and Research Results, edited by Henry D. Wallace. Anthropological Papers No. 48, Center for Desert Archaeology, Tucson.
Posters and Presentations
Samuel Duwe and Kelly Swarts. Tsiping’uinge: A Case Study for Social and Cosmological Transformation on the Northern Periphery of the Tewa World. Poster presented at the 75th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Sacramento, California, March 31-April 3, 2011.
Kelly Swarts. A Reanalysis of Conifer Wood Charcoal from Goodman Point Pueblo (Site 5MT604), Cortez, CO: An evaluation of an archaeobotanist’s ability to positively identify conifer wood charcoal at low magnifications (≤50X). Poster presented at the 74th annual meeting for the Society for American Archaeology, Atlanta, Georgia, April 22-26, 2009.
Kelly Swarts. Plants and Social Meaning: A Paleobotanical Investigation at Honey Bee Village, A Hohokam Ballcourt Settlement in the Northern Tucson Basin, AZ. Invited presentation given at Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, Cortez, Colorado. July 30, 2008.
Kelly Swarts. Upland Plant Use at Honey Bee Village, a Hohokam Ballcourt Settlement in the Northern Tucson Basin. Poster presented at the 73nd annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Vancouver, British Colombia, March 27-30, 2008.
Kelly Swarts. A Preliminary Model for Understanding Late Archaic Resource Use in the Taos District, NM. Poster presented at the 72nd annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Austin, Texas, April 25-29, 2007.
Christina Waskiewicz-Pugh, Severin M. Fowles, and Kelly Swarts. The Clements Site: Re-evaluation of the Archaic Period in the Taos District. Poster presented at the 70th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Salt Lake City, Utah, March 30 - April 3, 2005.
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